Building a More United America: Final Report
Date
2002
Topic(s)

“Following the discussions of this Assembly, and the foundation established over the last four years, we now have a report citizens around the country can draw upon to move us forward as a united people,” said David Gergen, Uniting America co-chair, U.S. News and World Report editor-at-large, and professor at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Under the leadership of David Gergen, Karen Elliott House and Don McHenry, participants finalized a report entitled “Bulding a More United America,” which served as a starting point for groundbreaking community dialogues across the country. 


The Uniting America project fostered dialogue on some of the most challenging issues in American life, from religion, to race, to economic justice, to the changing composition of the family.  In the course of six Assemblies convened over four years, participants worked to find common ground on these issues and common strategies for strengthening the democratic processes that allow us to work through them.  Collectively, the Uniting America events brought together some 300 scholars, practitioners, business leaders, and policymakers.  The project produced a series of reports, and a very successful book: Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America's Future.



 

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Tamar Shapiro

 

Tamar Shapiro is the President and CEO of the Center for Community Progress, where she promotes neighborhood revitalization through the creative reuse of vacant and abandoned property.  Previously the Senior Director of Urban and Social Policy at the U.S. German Marshall Fund, she focused on land use, housing, transportation, and the environment in the U.S. and Europe. A former staffer at Smart Growth America, she attended the Assembly on "Reinventing America's Legacy Cities" in Detroit and is an important contributor to the Assembly's urban policy work.